Before moving a scene forward or focusing on heightening, Matt challenges you to do more with what you got before you invent more.Details, Specifics and Information are always needed for a good improv scene. This workshop teaches you HOW to create those scenic needs while creating enjoyable humor and sound theater as a side effects of generating the best details possible.Enriching your scenes with History Philosophy, Metaphor with allow for DOZENS of options for how to perform a great scene without getting boxed into uncomfortable situations where you're in your head trying to figure out ONE way of doing the scene correctly.Tell stories, turn small choices into core character beliefs, express how you feel through a valid or flawed analogy and open up your scenes so that they inspire your form and fellow players while doing more with less. ​

Matt DonnellyMatt is a Las Vegas-based improvisor – he teaches Advanced Longform for Improv Vegas and performed in Wayne Brady’s “Making **It Up” at the Venetian. He co-stars on Penn Jillette’s podcast Penn’s Sunday School, and Matt & Mattingly’s Ice Cream Social podcast. Originally from New York, he taught at the People’s Improv Theater in New York for six years. He co-created the Neutrino Video Projects, which appeared at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival and has been franchised to 11 other cities around the world. Previously, he taught improv in the acting program at the New York Film Academy, and is an annual guest instructor at the Columbia University Business School Executive Education Program. His improv teachers include Amy Poehler, Armando Diaz, Charna Halpern, Liz Allen, Miles Stroth as well as many others. He has coached house teams at The PIT, UCB, and Magnet Theatre in New York and is a BFA Acting Alumni of Montclair State University